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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: Little Joe who wrote (60832)8/16/2009 12:09:27 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
I think you have made some good points. Those are the kind of questions people need answers to and why there is unease out there about the changes to be made.

Just a side note on "national" insurance companies. They sell nationally but each state's insurance commission/dept. sets its own rules. So the pricing is fractured as well as the procedures.

You are also correct about the need for better accountability in the billing process for Medicare. Politics aside, we could probably have a single payor system modeled on Medicare if the more controls were in place on the billing side.

That is a large effect what the argument(s) are about--what controls (savings) to place on the billing side. Everyone (Drs., Insurers, Patients, Hospitals) will have to adjust to a more controlled environment in order to "universalize" the system and change the way they make money.

That is why the argument is so intense. People's food bowls are being shuffled.
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